Abstract

The decision-making stage of the policy cycle received the most attention in the early development of the policy sciences, when analysts borrowed heavily from the models of decision-making in complex organizations developed by students of public administration and business organization. In this chapter, we will discuss about public policy decision-making models, to discuss the contending models of public policy decision-making and examine recent developments in the fields, based on several analysts’s point of view. These models are the rational model, the incremental model, and the ‘garbage can’ model. It concludes by proposing an alternative model of decision-making in governments which takes into account the questions about constraints on power and the significance of policy subsystems raised in our discussions of earlier stages of the policy cycle.